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“I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.”

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Don Imus, born on July 23, 1940, is a renowned radio host. He is known for his unique sense of humor and candid remarks, hosting several popular radio shows throughout his career. more

“Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.”

May Said Might Three Language Space Four Elements Chains Symbols Mathematical Dimensions Plus Three Dimensions

Author:William Rowan Hamilton

“The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.”

Purpose Sacrifice Originals Unity Developing Branches Splits Diverse Scope

Book:Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen: Zur anschaulichen Geometrie. Zur Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungen. Physikalisches. Hrsg. von R. Fricke und H. Vermeil

Source: Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen: Zur anschaulichen Geometrie. Zur Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungen. Physikalisches. Hrsg. von R. Fricke und H. Vermeil

“The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.”

United Theory Equal Application Mathematician Newton

Author:Felix Klein

“The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.”

Way Trying Facts Vain Over It Analysts

Author:Evariste Galois

“I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.”

Turns Evil Horror Function Fright Derivatives

Author:Charles Hermite

“I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.”